How to Dance Through Time: The Elegance of Baroque | A preview

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The fourth volume of the How to Dance Through Time series teaches the famously patterned dance steps from the French Baroque courts and countryside. These forms are the precursor to ballet and ballroom dance. Learn the Minuet, danced as a romantic courtship ritual, and the intricate Allemande, known for its kaleidoscope of handholds. Next, take a respite from the more formal steps and try the Contradance (Country Dance), an easy line dance that let dancers frolic at the end of Baroque period balls. Follow Carol Téten's Dance Through Time company as they recreate the most influential social dances of the French Baroque Court. The most famous of 18th century dances, the Minuet's patterned steps are delineated on the dance floor for clear viewing. The Allemande's complex and picturesque series of handholds are carefully depicted, and viewers learn of this dance's role in the transition dancing separately to dancing together in an embrace. Eight dancers demonstrate the Contradance's (Country Dance) recognizable line dance pattern. The video also illustrates French Baroque culture through dance, such as how courtiers learned the townspeople's dances on official visits to the countryside, brought the steps back with them to the courts, and incorporated various changes.

[@noelt8895]

How can such elegant music, dance and costume be paired with such a grating, coarse and ear-inflicting commentary?!

[@domo_5943]

Neil Follett i got her dvd and it is poison to the ears.

[@RobFSwitch]

😂😂😂

[@beckyboo5097]

Without a shadow of doubt in my mind I was around in the baroque period. Love everything about it!! The clothes are stunning the music is beautiful and the dancing is more refined 😆❤️

[@yaelrar.4460]

Love this. Love anyone who keeps this aspect of culture alive.

[@winchesterbaroquedancers]

We do at Winchester Baroque Dancers

[@PilgrimofMatter]

@LutzDerLurch My observation is that such costumes are usually not as accurate at they could be. Historic costumes require research and considerably more preparation than theatrical costumes. They are also a bit pricey. My efforts to make a historic costume from the 18th century have taught me this.

[@hurluby]

She's saying "floo-oo-ray," which is to say "fleuret," one of the names of the pas de bourrée.

[@greenland5313]

I love how the camera angles are from above and from a regular perspective. That makes it easier to see how things look.

[@malory6312]

As a ballet dancer, some of these moves are still used in modern times just evolved.

[@emilyrln]

Omg I'm writing an 18th century romance novel and this is EXACTLY what I need for the ballroom scene where the two leads dance! THANK YOU!!! (I may have to shove the time period forward to take advantage of some of those later dances…😚)

[@michaelslaughter1264]

god we really were fancy bird

[@cherianderson3577]

Top ten dance crazes of the 70’s

[@paulaharrisbaca4851]

That is where that came from!!! My parents loved square dancing and "allemagne left" was something I heard the caller say....

[@DancetimePublication]

La Bonne Amité Published in Recueil De Contredances by Raoul Auger Feuillet the dance and music come from the same source. Thanks for visiting! :)

[@FiorelysCinderella]

mon époque préféré, c'est génial, et la musique parfaite

[@angelcitygirl]

Thank you so much! Your videos are so helpful in my research.

[@bobduvar]

I saw on French tv that all theses costumes were very uncomfortable to wear. Last year i saw it about Versailles documentary and many characters wore it and they said they couldn't stand all these costumes....

[@YermIncorporated]

It's because we are NOW used to putting on less clothing. Back in the day they were probably as comfortable as they could be.

[@oopsgingermoment]

I’ve heard the opposite from folks who work as interpreters at Colonial Williamsburg. I think a lot hangs on fabric and ornamentations and the time of year.

[@danceclubpirouette]

beautifully!!!

[@Conn30Mtenor]

This looks like great fun.

[@Akatowari070180]

Love it !!!

[@skipperbonus]

this is great! TY

[@teresaw6437]

this is gold!!!

[@JH-fr3go]

thank you.i learnt alot.

[@marie-armelle458]

c'est très passionnant. merci beaucoup

[@lalrinnghetisonset9072]

This is so ❤️❤️❤️i love history

[@mariaisabelsosa]

Hermoso, muy ilustrativo. La ropa y el calzado espléndidos .

[@biianchetto]

I was yet confused at the first step 😱, but I like it, it's so cute!

[@marie6200]

Thanks

[@robertfogelberg7538]

Super weldone

[@LeSymposie]

meravigliosi!!! how can i have one of that beautiful dresses??

[@vezia9494]

So, what you're telling me is that we used to have a mating dance-

[@thekingshussar1808]

What's the violin and piano music for the "Allemande"?

[@mellowmorgan]

what is she saying after demi-coupe on the minuet steps part?

[@reinilla]

I have question in that time how the guests knew the dances?

[@yasssbitch3999]

They were cultural dances. Just like today, in many places people go to parties and dance popular dances that everyone knows. Back then, these dances were the popular and cultural ones that one would know already.

[@NelsonClick]

I would like to remind piano players who like me grew up playing and enjoying baroque suites and minuets that the purpose of all that music was secondary to the dance; which was the real focus - not the music. I didn't put the two together for decades till I started to wonder why is there so much easy-to-play piano music produced from that period. I'm a musician not a dancer and I must confess that when I realized this fact my love for Baroque music decayed. It was dance music of the period and not great expressive art. It is the equivalent of the pop music we dance to today. Imagine a Bach Baroque Suite with "Hit Me Baby One More Time". It was designed for the same purpose; get a girl or a guy.

[@nagbalala6564]

good point ! ^^

[@kaoru1998]

If you took college level music history classes and college level music theory classes, AND taken from a conservatory level teacher, you would find out that you are VERY wrong that they are not expressive art. Don't even TRY to compare baroque music to that crap called "Hit me baby one more time." THAT is NOT GOOD MUSIC. Any serious trained musician can tell the difference between music that is art and junk that claims to be art. Yes, the dances were meant to be danced to. However, the musicians writing those dances were TRAINED and were NOT stupid self taught idiots who only knew a couple simple chords. If you think most pop "musicians" today are highly trained you are quite wrong. Some of them are, and Lady Gaga is one of them, for example. She was a trained classical pianist first. If you had to take a couple decades to figure out that the stuff you were learning was originally for dancing to, that means you didn't have decent teachers who taught you where that music came from, what it was intended for, and how to correctly play it in a musical manner. And no, NONE of that music is as simple as you think it is. There is a right way and a wrong way to play ALL of it, and if you do not understand the style of the composer who wrote the piece you are playing, the time period in which it was written in, and how the dance is supposed to be played, you would butcher it, and it would sound terrible. While that music may have been danced to, it also was listened to in the parlors of homes where people had the means to own a piano and learn to play. Just remember that without classical music, pop music would not exist. This is coming from a person with a BM in music performance.

[@EvgeniyDolzhenko]

In fact can you name a nobler purpose than getting a girl or a guy?

[@Mosil0]

Not at all. Late baroque suites (the stuff that's most commonly played today) were intended for listening, not dancing. Imagine trying to dance to a Bach cello suite: it's too rhythmically ambiguous and complicated, unless you're familiar with the music in advance.

[@conner017_5]

Kaoru NO one is gonna read this

[@bradleywilkinson1808]

Where is it?

[@LutzDerLurch]

@kolobite True. But by know there are Plenty of Books out there with Pictures and Patterns of Originals. Even if you do not stick to the techniques and Materials, and such, there is, today, hardly any Excuse for getting the Overall Impression quite Wrong. At least, you can tray to replicate the Look of the Clothing someone wears on a Portrait.

[@kieran196]

@jennifer23ish If you look at that men of high staus wore from the 16th-18th centuries silks,lace,jewels they had it all!

[@BECERRAPACHECO]

:) i love it........... hi from colombia :)

[@andrabarcan8573]

They look so innocent and romantic 💕

[@name_not_important7757]

Harmony?

[@LazlosPlane]

What was the time signature of that Minuet? It seemed awfully fast, almost a gigue.

[@kaoru1998]

It's in 3/4. Three beats to the bar.

[@Davmm96]

Gosh, that heavy accent on the steps name: "Flouhouré"... Those americans..

[@evelyn9219]

It's always funny watching foreigners try to pronounce American English :)

[@thekingshussar1808]

Daymn yankees!

[@noelt8895]

@@evelyn9219 Almost as much fun as watching Americans trying to pronounce English.

[@thomashughes4859]

@@noelt8895 HAHAHAHAAAAA!!! That's funny right there; I don't care who you are ...

[@dimmingrays1]

Neil Follett I am certain you are referring to the "Queen's English" , which most of English people who did not go to "public schools- another bizarre way of naming private schools!" Cannot fathom to speak! Let us just say that American English is a mercy to the ears compared to your "average" Englishman' speak! Yes we do have an accent, but we saved your butt in WW2 and the Falklands, remember?

[@mojosbigsticks]

Love the long dress, hides a multitude of mis-steps!

[@Swmueller751]

What's the name of the "allemand"? :)

[@fabi3209]

Yep, watch me fail all of these dances. I'll be just watching in the corner over there. :D

[@NUSORCA]

They danced their way to the guillotine

[@irinalemos]

This is rococo clothing and pics

[@michellajustmichaella]

I... I couldn't help it, sorry- 3:07 AngelicaAaAa... ElizaAaAa... AnD PeGgY!

[@barondeficit1081]

1:43 Wait, is that Marie Antoinette

[@Shadow1606]

¿En serio KZbin recomienda esto después de 11 años?

[@jonelynerejer2637]

di ku getz

[@vladimirpechanec7692]

As this is french national cultural heritage, why are these programs not French-made ?

[@rainman3377]

Because the people of quality were killed during the reign of terror. Without the Bourbon family France is only half of it's self.

[@doneyhon4227]

+Vladimir Pechanec They exist. Do you understand french?

[@user-cd2xo7gm3t]

Helloo Grade 9 students

[@user-uu5vp2cr9i]

0:23メヌエット

[@ztrek1000]

Je suis d'accord avec Madamoiselle Fiorleyscinderella.

[@ashmaz4811]

ba-rowk. Its Ba-rock

[@hereisahuman5977]

I think some of this ended up in swing dancing

[@LutzDerLurch]

@jennifer23ish still, the Costumes here are quite ugly and not well recreated.

[@somethinggtwo]

One thing- I'm not sure men danced with their hats on

[@doneyhon4227]

Then americans invented the disco... lol

[@evelyn9219]

And jazz :)

[@doneyhon4227]

Rose Six Jazz... It seems to be a franco-american thing.

[@doneyhon4227]

Rose Six Not at all. It's one of the first international music. It started to be true Jazz in New Orleans and St Louis. They mixed the Biguine and the Quadrille from the French Caribean Islands with the American Blues. It developped at the same time in New Orleans and the French Caribeans. Then it came to Paris by 1918 and created its own branches: French Jazz, Jazz Manouche, Jazz Toulousain, etc. Why do you think a lot of jazzmen were singing in french like Louis Amstrong?

[@doneyhon4227]

Rose Six That's not what I was saying. I was just saying that it was a more a franco-american music than an americano-american music, since it's a mix of french and american music and it developped in American and in France at the very same time. That's it.

[@doneyhon4227]

Rose Six You should read again because it seems that you didn't get what was your country at the time. First sentence: "American musicians, historians, critics and listeners alike take pride in jazz, birthed in multicultural New Orleans.", I continue: "Also among the Africans and people from the Caribbean were Europeans. Scottish, English, Irish, French, Spanish and Italians made distinct contributions to the New Orleans melting pot." Plus this article is very focused on the US. If read you a european article, it starts with French influences at the very first line. But I do agree with you. Let's make love, not war... only if you are a girl! lol

[@ruguoserliegise2716]

Tony Stark is dead

[@ariefhf]

This is so random lol

[@newyorkshitty3026]

2:25 Her dress looks too flat please put on some petticoats.

[@dancingcat87]

New York Shitty the style of petticoats during baroque period is flat . Full ones came into existence later.

[@oopsgingermoment]

The 18th century doesn’t remain stagnant with fashion. Bodice and skirt shapes change practically by the decade. What that lady is wearing is perfectly fine for interpreting the 1740s-1750s’ heavy use of panniers at court.

[@LutzDerLurch]

UGH...the costumes are GHASTLY!

[@allisonforfornsed]

LOL! I was just thinking how beautiful they were. Although I've never been crazy about the wigs.

[@achanneltowatch38372]

I hate dresses amd all that fansy stuff

[@jennifer23ish]

men sure dressed fem in those days !!!

[@yaelrar.4460]

The more detail and flourishes the more it meant you were successful, powerful, important. It was intentional.

[@somethinggtwo]

It's only "feminine" from your odd, narrow-minded modern perspective.

[@domo_5943]

I got their Dvd through the library. The commentary is poison to the ears to say the least. The intentional over exageration of the pronounciation of the french terms is awful, and not cool at all like this woman thinks it is/was. Also, the costumes are an eye sore, particularly the footwear of the dancers. They seem very hastily made, just to get through with the video. Someone could have perfectly invested a little time in research the cut of the clothes to better channel the Baroque and 18th century feeling. Also, I have found some errors in her information regarding the political and dance comments she makes during the video. I would rate it a 2 or 3 star. Take the commentary with a grain of salt and just focus on the dancing. Do your own research as well.

[@ludwiksudawski928]

This movie is a nightmare! Terrible costumes, it is kitsch!

[@achanneltowatch38372]

The dresses are so big and ugly